CALLOT (Jacques).

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CALLOT (Jacques).
The Miseries and Woes of War. Represented by Iacques Callot Noble Lorrain et mis, en lumière par Israël son amy. In Paris, 1633, 18 plates including the title (plate 2 is missing), about 8.5 x 18.5 cm, trimmed to the frame, and pasted to the front of an oblong album on strong paper attached by a cordon (14 x 25 cm). Third state (of three known): The excudit of Israel on pieces 2 to 18, as well as the mention of the privilege on pieces 2 to 17, have been removed. These words have been replaced by these: Callot inv. et fec. On no. 18, the mention Callot fecit has been left; the words Israel excudit have been erased. The margin is surrounded by a square line (traces of handling, missing title corners (no. 1) and splitting, all right corners torn and reattached, some soiling). Trained as a painter and engraver from the age of 12 in Italy, first as a runaway, Jacques Callot entered with the consent of his family the service of the Medicis in 1612 where he acquired a great reputation. He returned to Nancy in 1621 at the request of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine. He produced this very famous suite, often called Les grandes misères, shortly after the siege by Louis XIII's armies of the capital of the duchy of Lorraine in 1633. Well known for his incomparable talent, Jacques Callot was asked by the King of France to engrave this decisive event in the Thirty Years' War, the siege of Nancy. Three years earlier, Callot had already produced Le Grand siège de La Rochelle for the same illustrious patron. But the engraver from Nancy was a patriot and would have replied: "Sire, I am from Lorraine and believe I should do nothing against the honour of my Prince and my country. "These engravings by a great master not only show the war, but also depict with a striking realism, the various aspects of military life, from enlistment to corporal punishment. If the suite bears the date Paris (and not Nancy) 1633, it is because the prints were made by the artist's compatriot and friend, Israël Henriet, who had been the exclusive publisher of Callot's works since 1629 and was based in Paris. In addition to the presence of the six verses due to the Abbé de Marolles, placed two by two below each etching, and obviously absent from the first state, another element allows us to identify with certainty that this suite is that of the third state: the name of Henriet has been removed.
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